linux-kernel - Re: Make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA boot-time configurable

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Message-ID: <20100715204233.370b6aa2@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:42:33 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: Make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA boot-time configurable

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:09:44 -0400
Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:

> We had a request to disable DEBUG_RODATA in our kernel for debugging
> purposes. Turning it off completely seems a bit unfortunate for the
> minority case of people wanting to do debugging, so I came up with
> this patch to make it a boot-time 'disable_rodata' argument.


I'd be very curious what kind of debugging this is...
is this the rootkit type of debugging?


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